Flute Watch

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra is the largest performing arts organization in the Southwest United States. Known as one of the nation's highest-paid orchestras, the symphony is also home to the amazing flutists David Buck, Deborah Baron, and Kara Kirkendoll Welch. Naturally, tickets to see this orchestra can be expensive, with prices soaring up to $155 per person. However, ticket prices are no longer a problem, thanks to the work of the city's partnerships and philanthropists. Here are five ways to get tickets to your next Dallas Symphony concert for free. 1. City of Dallas Culture Pass For:  Dallas library cardholders Frequency :  All concerts The City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture and the Dallas Public Library partnered up on November 22nd to create the Culture Pass, which allows all Dallas library cardholders to check out a ticket to local arts organizations.  In addition to the Dallas Symphony, this culture pass also gives complimentary a...

It has been a little over a year since Tyler Shropshire won the college division of the Wm. S. Haynes Texas All Star Competition. Held in 2018 to 2019, the Wm. S. Haynes Texas All Star Competition was open to middle-schoolers through college flutists in the state of Texas. There were three divisions open: the middle school, the high school, and the college undergraduate division. All prospective players were required to submit pieces written, premiered, or commissioned by Haynes artists, along with selected standards from the TMEA All State music for high schoolers and other standards. For the undergraduate competitors, this meant submitting individual recordings of one of the following works: Dr. Timothy Hagen’s Blowout, Mike Mower’s Flute Concerto, Claude Debussy’s Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, Jacques Ibert’s Jeux Sonatine, C.P.E Bach’s Sonata in A minor, and Amanda Harberg’s Court Dances. The recordings were due in early December and were adjudicated by well-resp...

The Carolyn Nussbaum Music Company is a great shop for flutists to purchase flute essentials and attend many lovely community events. Last weekend, they hosted an exciting Flute Choir Reading Session and January Sunday Soiree. Now they are having even more events for the flute community. Here are the upcoming events this spring hosted by the Carolyn Nussbaum's Music Company: Flute Choir Workshop with Paul Edmund-Davies Monday, January 20, 2020 10:00am - 1:00pm Join Carolyn Nussbaum Music Company and North Bridges in welcoming Paul-Edmund Davies for a workshop on how to create and maintain a great flute choir program. Admission is free; RSVP at flute4u.com to be entered in our raffle giveaway. Fear-free Approach to Improv for the Classically Trained Flutist with Jamie Baum Sunday, February 2, 2020 3:00pm - 5:00pm Texas Flute Society and Altus Flutes present renowned jazz flutist Jamie Baum with a fun introductory class on improvisation. Bring your fl...

Won Lee is a tall, built man with kind, black eyes. When he walks into the room, he brings this wholehearted, agreeable demeanor that likens to the self-assured warmth of an old family friend. A student might stumble playing a passage and he would easily laugh it off with a benevolent and hearty chuckle. Moreover, Lee displays a remarkably humble quality about him, an inscrutably reserved kind that one would find maddeningly intriguing.  The story of how Lee came to be the Flute Instructor at The University of Texas at Dallas is not usual. UT Dallas, after all, was never meant to be a music school. When it was founded exactly fifty years ago, the founders Eugene McDermott, Cecil Howard Green and J. Erik Jonsson imagined UT Dallas to be a STEM-rich university, filled with tech-savvy programmers and engineers. Most students today, fulfilling that vision, major in Computer Science, Biology, and Mechanical Engineering. The rest of the students usually either belong to the we...

The UT Arlington Flute Festival has announced this year's finalists for the 2020 Maverick Solo Flute Competition. Consisting of players from three categories of high schoolers, undergraduates, and graduates and professionals, all finalists will compete live in Irons Recital Hall in the Fine Arts Building on Friday, January 24th from 7-9:00pm. They each will be performing one solo piece they had submitted with during the preliminary round along with Hope Beohm's piece,  A Distorted Fantasy for Solo Flute. Winners will receive gift certificates to the Carolyn Nussbaum Music Company. This year's finalists are: High School MFS Finalists Lorien Britt, Rockwall High School Alice Mae Alford, Coppell High School Shane Salinas, Keller High School Kristen Edwards, Grapevine High School Alyssa Brown, Mansfield Summit High School  Undergraduate MFS Finalists Lauren Davis, University of Texas at Arlington Caleb J. Estrada-Valentin, Baylor University D...